Railway-tie



6aum1 Q J. R. DOOLEY. RAILWAY TIE. APPLICATION mm AUG.30. 1919.

Patented June 15, 1920.

WITNESSES J. E. Doc/e By W To all whom it may concern:

UNITED (STATES.

JOS EPIi RdBERT noo' LEY, onMoBrLE, ALABAMA. it

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Be it known'that'I, Josnrrr 1R. 'DoonnY, a

citizen of the United States, and a resident of Mobile, in the county ofMobile and State of Alabama, have invented a new and ImprovedRailway-Tie, ofwhich the following is a full, clear, andexactdescription. Thisinventionrelates to new. and useful improvements incombination" railway ties,

and it pertains "more particularlyv to that type of tie described inUnited States Letters Patent No. 1,317,560, granted to me tv'eptember30, 1919.

It is the primary object of the present invention to improve the meansemployed for securing railway rails to the ties.

It is a further object of the present invention to form a more effectivemeans for securing the meeting ends of the tie sections together.

With the above and other objects in view, reference is had to theaccompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1. is a side elevation, partlyin section, of a tie and rail fastening means constructed in accordancewith the present invention; r

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary top plan view thereof;

Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view taken on the line 33 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional view taken on the line -f14 of Flg, 5;

Fig. 5is a horizontal sectional, view;

Figs. (3 and 7 are detail. perspective views.

of two forms of wear plates employed in connection with the tie. I

Referring more particularly'to the drawings, the reference characters 8and 9 designate the two sections of the tie, the outer end of each ofwhich sections is thickened as designated by the reference character 10.The reference character 11' designates the meeting edges of the innerend of the tie sections 8 and 9, said sections being provided at theirmeeting ends with shoulders 12 and 13, respectively. Each of theseshoulders extends throhghout half of the width of its tie member, theother half of said width being formed in a recess to accommodate theshoulder of the opposite tie member. These two tie members are securedtogether by means of a two-part clip 14, each part of which comprises asubstantially L-shaped member, the extremity of Specification of wasream. 1 Y

"and 9 of the'tie together. 7

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'one leg of which 'is screw threaded for the reception ofa nut 15.Theopposite end of each "of said L-shapedmembers being formed with aneye,16, said end of each memberbeing adapted to receive thethreaded end"of the opposite member as shown in Fig. 2, in order to secure'the twosections 8 I The enlarged portion 10 of each'of the tie members 8 and 9is provided with a recess' 17, the side walls-of which are straight andthe end walls of which are undercut as designated at 18 in Figs. 1 and4. In each of these recesses 17 is mounted a cushion block 19, and eachcushion block is maintained within its respective recess by means oflocking plates 20 and wedges 21 and 22, the locking plates 20 each beingprovided on its lower end with a projection 23, which is adapted toengage under the ends of the cushion block.

The reference character 25 designates a wear plate, which comprises asheet metal member adapted to be placed between the rails 26 and thecushion blocks 19. As

designated by the reference character '27,

the cushion blocks are cut out on their upper face at their'inner end,and the wear plates 25 are each provided with an integral dependingflange 28, which is adapted to engage the'shoulder 29 formed by cuttingsaid recess.

The rails 26 are secured in position on the wear plates 25 by fastenings30, and each of said fastenings comprises a bolt, the

upper end of which is hooked as at 31, to

engage the base of the rail, it being understood that there are four ofthese rail-fastening means at each end of the tie, being arranged inpairs on opposite sides of the base flange of the rail. each'of thesefastening means is hooked as at 32, and is adapted to engage beneath thecushion plate 19, the flare of the recess in which the cushion plate ismounted being provided with depressions 33 to accommodate the lowerhooked ends 32' of the rail fasteningsf Leading from the bottom ofthe'depressed portion 33 is a passageway 84, which serves as a means topermit of the draining'of water which may accumulate in the bottom ofthe recess 17 and its depressed portion 33.

' As shown in Fig. 7 the wear plates are each provided near one end,with square The lower end of I openings 35, and near the opposite endwith slots 86, the purpose of both of which is to receive the railfastenings 30.

Fig. 6 shows a modified form of wear plate and in this form the wearplate is provided with an integral brace 26, the inner end of which isprovided with oppositely disposedintegral wings 27 adapted to engage theweb of the rail 26. This form of wear plate is particularly adapted foruse when the track is formed with a curve, the portion 26' serving as abrace to the rail. In this form of the invention, the wear plate is alsoprovided with squared openings 35 and slots 36, to receive the railfastenings 30, which are of the same construction as m the heretoforedescribed form.

By reference to the drawings, it will be seen that the wedges 21 and 22are not of equal thickness, the specific reason for which is that oncurves the rail head sometimes wears, thus increasing the gage of thetrack. If when the track is laid, the narrower wedge be placed upon theoutside of the rail, it Wlll be seen that as said rail wears, if thewedges are transposed with the thicker wedge placed to the outside ofthe rail, the same will be moved nearer the opposite rail of the track,thus bringing the gage of said track to standard.

Havin thus described the what is c aimed is: V

A railway. tie comprising two sections having abutting ends, aprojection on-each of said abutting ends, a recess formed on each ofsaid abutting ends and arranged to receive the projection upon theabutting end opposed thereto, and means carried by each of said abuttingends and adapted for interengagement to secure the two tie sections inoperative position.

JOSEPH ROBERT DOOLEY.

invention,

